Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Election ‘ 92 : Egg case man 's link to Labour |
| 2 | This was followed by the Public Accounts Committee 's first special report , session 1980- , and the government 's response to that report ( Cmnd. 8323 ) . |
| 3 | In the slow process it appears that exercise of a particular type strengthens , or at least preserves , the system 's response to that type of stimulus . |
| 4 | Lord Parker 's response to that suggestion was that no offence had been committed in any event because , even if it could be said that such conduct was insulting ( which he doubted ) most men approached in such a way are not likely to resort to violence . |
| 5 | Can we have the County Council 's response to that ? |
| 6 | Before asking what feature of Quine 's position is supposed to make this response possible , we should note Quine 's response to familiar sceptical arguments , for example , those that rest upon evidence for perceptual error and illusion , and upon empirical evidence of delusion . |
| 7 | Peking 's response to other calls for ‘ democracy ’ this summer raised enough doubts . |
| 8 | But he saw natural selection as less important than the Lamarckian mechanism in which self-improvements resulting from the individual 's response to environmental challenge are inherited and thus accumulate to change the species . |
| 9 | This was done by plotting each person 's response to each dose of salmeterol on the log dose response curve after placebo and salbutamol for each index . |
| 10 | He made small movements with his body , feinting this way and that , gauging Tuan Ti Fo 's response to each , a low growling coming from his throat . |
| 11 | The GDR 's response to Soviet oil cuts was to increase lignite production and coal refining . |
| 12 | But take care ; not everybody 's response to certain parts of the diet will be the same . |
| 13 | This explains the Persian king 's response to Spartan requests for financial help in the 420s , that he could not understand what they wanted . |
| 14 | Spain 's response to economic crisis was dominated by the transition from an authoritarian regime to a liberal parliamentary democracy . |
| 15 | The Health Secretary had accepted recommendations addressed to his department , and had already introduced a review of the health service 's response to major incidents . |
| 16 | But , despite these glimmers of hope , this survey of the left 's response to Distant Voices , Still Lives and A Very British Coup has , on the whole , demonstrated how much the mainstream operates a hegemony in the area of critical discourse . |
| 17 | The year was 1876 and the coachman was later fined for his behaviour , but the incident illustrates the reactionary 's response to new forms of transport . |
| 18 | ( For another example of the law 's response to new technology , see Chapter 6 , p. 170 . ) |
| 19 | Dewey 's response to such criticism , I suspect , would have been that he was certainly not naive about the nature of those forces but that , if there is to be hope for humanity , there is no alternative but to be optimistic . |
| 20 | The TUC 's response to such criticisms has been characteristically heavy-handed : McIlroy was barred from teaching on TUC courses , and it is alleged that attempts have been made to stifle debate . |
| 21 | And it is now equally clear that Mrs Thatcher 's response to this ultimatum was similarly direct . |
| 22 | Locke 's response to this , his labour theory of property , is famous . |
| 23 | ‘ The test of whether the changes in Mr Major 's new Cabinet are cosmetic or real lies in the new Secretary of State 's response to this appalling situation , ’ said Mr Blair . |
| 24 | Ayer 's response to this argument would be to agree that natural beauty , the intricacy of the physical universe , or the short life of a Galilean Jew , represented observable evidence . |
| 25 | Daphne 's response to this remembrance is to pledge obedience to her mother 's memory by forgetting Cynthio and embracing her sister shepherdesses . |
| 26 | The world 's response to this is a ‘ Dr Zhivago mentality ’ , which is ‘ if one lover ca n't meet my needs I will have two ’ . |
| 27 | Irwin 's response to this spectacular appeal to the viceregal conscience was one of glacial disdain . |
| 28 | If it is insisted that image worship is nothing but a form of idol worship , Gandhi 's response to this accusation is that image worship is simply indicative of man 's need for symbols . |
| 29 | Laing 's response to this extraordinary solidarity from a colleague , and in outrage at losing his money , had been to spend the night in the Jeddah branch falsifying the records to ‘ prove ’ that a much larger sum had been embezzled with the co-operation of Steve Pyle himself . |
| 30 | The women 's response to this dispute differed . |